The community behind Django is clearly going from strength to strength. As of June 2015, the community website reports 10,459 people are involved from 161 countries, which is quite impressive. The conference itself was one of many Django events this year and has...

Netsight improves usability and server performance by integrating into an intranet cloud-based storage and delivery of videos and large files. This solution hands off uploads, so that content editors no longer need to wait for file uploads to complete. It also provides automated transcoding and resolves performance bottlenecks.

Nesight greatly improved search functionality on a customer’s business portal by integrating Solr search into the Plone CMS. Weighting of metadata and spell-checking suggestions were key to better search results.

Netsight has released a new package that significantly improves the efficiency of Plone’s security indexing. This experimental package can dramatically reduce computational time required whenever changes are made to local roles on large, busy sites.

Netsight uses the Pluggable Authentication Service (PAS) in Plone to implement transparent Single Sign-On in complex use cases involving multiple Active Directory domains. This supports combining various plugins to provide the best experience for intranet users.